Hacker News: chankstein38

New comment by chankstein38 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

chankstein38 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:52:50 +0000

Personal Superintelligence made me think this was an open-source model being released and I was excited. Then I continued reading and I'll just wait until the model comes out.

New comment by chankstein38 in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

chankstein38 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:02:22 +0000

Man back in the XP days we used to just edit registry entries responsible for these things and use reshack to open binaries for modification.

New comment by chankstein38 in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

chankstein38 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:58:19 +0000

I've exported any servers that I run as backups and plan to uninstall if I get an age verification prompt personally.

New comment by chankstein38 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

chankstein38 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:39:35 +0000

I ended up adding a "NEVER REMOVE LOGGING OR DEBUGGING INFO, OPT TO ADD MORE OF IT" to my user instructions and that has _somewhat_ fixed the problem but introduced a new problem where, no matter what I'm talking to it about, it tries to add logging. Even if it's not a code problem. I've had it explain that I could setup an ESP32 with a sensor so that I could get logging from it then write me firmware for it.

New comment by chankstein38 in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

chankstein38 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:59:00 +0000

I liked using it like this but my problem is that it wouldn't reliably respond to commands while music was playing. There were times I had to unplug it to get music to stop. And other times I'd want a song with an explicit word in the name and it'd pretend it didn't exist.. like wtf I'm an adult in my own house I think you can manage to play the song I asked for whether or not it has a big mean curse word in it.

New comment by chankstein38 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

chankstein38 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:21:53 +0000

And the scariest part to me is that we're not even at the weirdest parts yet. The AI is still pretty trash relative to the dream yet we're already here.

New comment by chankstein38 in "Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity"

chankstein38 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:10:48 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to share and respond! Having to take your word for it makes sense, I think I'll give it a shot! Good luck with all of this!

New comment by chankstein38 in "Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity"

chankstein38 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:27:34 +0000

Curious. Are you just a good guy whos tired of the way the world is? What's in this for you? This seems like a cool thing to do but I feel like "I will never sell the platform" should be taken with a grain of salt. How long-term are you intending for this to run? How long has it currently run? What is your uptime?

I'm not meaning to grill you here. These are just the questions I had reading through the page. Will I take my blog here and then have it just disappear in a month?

Thank you for your time and thank you for contributing something like this to the world! We need more "things so things can exist" and less "Things so I can have money" so big kudos from me!

New comment by chankstein38 in "Evolution of car door handles over the decades"

chankstein38 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:02:56 +0000

Or someone who had to open their own car door before lol

New comment by chankstein38 in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

chankstein38 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:24:41 +0000

They should've used lasagna. You could be in a tundra heating it over a fire and, as long as you get it sufficiently and consistently hot, it'll still burn your mouth 20minutes later.

New comment by chankstein38 in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

chankstein38 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:37:35 +0000

We used to use GSuite then we got acquired and we're a microsoft shop. :(

New comment by chankstein38 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

chankstein38 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:41:48 +0000

Tomorrow's Calc app will have 30mil lines of code and 1000 npm dependencies!

New comment by chankstein38 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

chankstein38 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:40:48 +0000

If that's the case I feel like you couldn't actually be using them or paying attention. I'm a big proponent and use LLMs for code and hardware projects constantly but Gemini Pro and ChatGPT 5.2 are both probably the worst state we've seen. 6 months ago I was worried but at this point I have started finding other ways to find answers to things. Going back to the stone tablets of googling and looking at Stackoverflow or reddit.

I still use them but find that more of the time is spent arguing with it and correcting problems with it than actually getting any useful product.

New comment by chankstein38 in "I overengineered a spinning top [video]"

chankstein38 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:03:02 +0000

Thank you! This is what I really wanted!

New comment by chankstein38 in "I overengineered a spinning top [video]"

chankstein38 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:32:59 +0000

I saw this and, while interesting and impressive, this isn't really a spinning top. It's a gyroscope. I was hoping for a real like "I cast metal into the perfect shape that I physically derived somehow to last as long as possible" or something similar not just "I put a motor in a case and it spins"

New comment by chankstein38 in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

chankstein38 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:53:16 +0000

That's what got me. I've never written a browser from scratch but just telling me that it took millions of lines of code made me feel like something was wrong. Maybe somehow that's what it takes? But I've worked in massive monorepos that didn't have 3million lines of code and were able to facilitate an entire business's function.

New comment by chankstein38 in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

chankstein38 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:48:51 +0000

Get into Meshtastic or Meshcore! (So far I prefer meshtastic)

It's a citizen-run mesh network that allows text communication. It's not perfect and not 100% reliable (signal and hops limit delivery guarantees) but it's better than 0 ways to communicate in this kind of event!

New comment by chankstein38 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

chankstein38 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:57:38 +0000

The other day I was trying to navigate to a Costco in my car. So I opened google maps on Android Auto on the screen in my car and pressed the search box. My car won't allow me to type even while parked... so I have to speak to the Google Voice Assistant.

I was in the map search, so I just said "Costco" and it said "I can't help with that right now, please try again later" or something of the sort. I tried a couple more times until I changed up to saying "Navigate me to Costco" where it finally did the search in the textbox and found it for me.

Obviously this isn't the same thing as Gemini but the experience with Android Auto becomes more and more garbage as time passes and I'm concerned that now we're going to have 2 google product voice assistants.

Also, tbh, Gemini was great a month ago but since then it's become total garbage. Maybe it passes benchmarks or whatever but interacting with it is awful. It takes more time to interact with than to just do stuff yourself at this point.

I tried Google Maps AI last night and, wow. The experience was about as garbage as you can imagine.

New comment by chankstein38 in "The next two years of software engineering"

chankstein38 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:06:49 +0000

Amen. It's hard to live with hope right now at all. Programmer or otherwise we're constantly told we're all going to be replaced and the economy is a mess (US). Definitely a depressing time to be alive.

New comment by chankstein38 in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

chankstein38 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:28:55 +0000

Sounds like someone trying to sell a course or something.